Palácio Nacional de Sintra

Sintra National Palace, also known as Town Palace is an impressive example for the palaces and the only preserved Royal Palace in Portugal from the Middle Age. Its plant is complex and irregular and it is the result from several construction campaigns and periods in which the main ones were during Dom João I and Dom Manuel time and also the third of the 16th century. This Town Palace is the most ambitious project under the Mudéjar style in Portugal. It was quite used by the mediaeval Kings and it possesses several divisions, among which the Archers Room, the Guests Room, the Arab Room, the Chinese Room, Afonso VI Room, the Arms or Coat of Arms Room and Pega´s (magpies) Room.